I'm pulling out of the parking space. We all know what that means it's time for another drive to work.

And it meant that I had to drop my kids off at school. But, so today, we're going to, I get a lot of questions about play testing.

So I thought today, I was going to spend on my podcast talking all about playtesting.

Now, be aware, I'm mostly going to talk about design playtest because that's what I do.

I'll talk a little bit about development playtests, because I've been in a few of those.

Okay, so let's ask the first question, which is how do we playtest?

And the answer is that we make stickers.

So we have a thing we call Multiverse, which is our database, and Multiverse

has the ability to produce stickers. We print them on stickers, much like you'd put on an envelope,

although we cut them to make them fit on a magic card. And then we put them on the appropriately,

like if it's a green card, it goes on a green magic card. And so we have old magic cards that we sticker on.

And so our playtesting is these stickered cards.

So what happens is, let's say I want to do a playtest.

There's a guy named Dan.

Dan is the man.

Dan is the person who arranges things like doing stickers.

So you'll go to Dan and say, I have a play test in two days or three days.

You've got to give him enough notice and tell him whether you do a booster draft or sealed.

If your set has certain parameters, sometimes we're trying to do something where things

are just a little bit different.

You know, Time Spiral had a bonus sheet.

Inistrade had double-phase cards.

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